Basket.



A. H. CRAWFORD.

BASKET.

APPLIOATION TILED 0GT.12, 1906.

Patented Oct. 6, 1908.

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m-"VENTOR quiring two handles placed diametrically op- UNITED STATESAMOS H. osAWFoRD, or LIVERPOOL, NEwYoRK.

' BASKET.

To all'whom it mag concern:

Be it known that I, AMos CRAWFORD, a citizen of the United States andresident of Liverpool, in the county of ()nondaga, in the State of NewYork, have invented new and useful Improvements in Baskets, of which thefollowing, taken in connection with the.

accompanying'drawings, is afull, clear, and exactdescriptlon.

This invention relates to the class of baskets especiallyclothes-baskets or baskets re- Qsite each other on the basket, which areormed-from wickers or willows.

The object of the invention is toprovide a basket which shall be verystrong and durable and simple and inexpensive in its manufacture. And tothat end the invention consists in the novel construction andcombination of the component arts of the basket hereinafter described anclaimed.

In 'theaccompanyin drawings, Figure 1 is avertical longitudina sectionof a clothes basket embodying my invention; Fig. 2 is a detached planview of the central-supporting-board of therbasket; Fig. 3 is an endview of the basket; Fig. .4 is a fragmentary sectional view of thewillow portion of the bot- .tom of the basket; Fig. 5 is an enlargedver- 30.

tical transverse section of the connection of -.the bod of the basket tothe bottom thereof;

Fig.6 ustrates amodification of m inven- -tion; Fig. 7 is'an enlargedinverted p an view of the skeleton frame of the basket, aportion of thebottom board bein broken away to showthe attachment of the li board, andindicating by dotted line the out-.

andle-rod to the said line of the body of the basket; and Fig. 8 is a.perspective showing more clearly the. con

struction and attachment of the rods.

One'of the salient features of my invention consists in the constructionof the bottom of the basket, which bottom comprises a, rigid I saicspu'rsbeing willows extending around the board and frame composed of aboard and s ms attached to said board and-projectin ll tall outward from"the'edges of t a board, disposed for reception of woven alternatelyacross the tops anf bottoms of the successive spurs a'sshown in F1 4 ofthe drawings. I preferablyemploy nai s -bb.- to serve the function ofthe aforesaid spurs, said nails being driven" into the edge of the board-'a anddisposed in a row around the board and with proper spaces betweenthe nails to allow willows to be I Specification of LettersPatent. IApplication filed October 12, 1900. SerialNo. amt.

orizon- PATENiI OFFICE woven thereon in the manner above stated and thusform the mar inal portion c --of Patented. Oct. e, 19oz.

the basket bo'ttom,the centralor mainpor-g tion' of which consists ofthe board The nails -bbe are disposed in-a plane which causes the-bottomof .:the board-n to project below the bottom of the willow section candallow the board to support:

the basket on the ground without causing the 'WillOW section cto come incontactwi-th the ground and become soiled or wetthereby. T e body --d--of the basket is formed from willows wovenonwill'ow standards -.,e-

in 'the'usual manner. The lower ends ofsaid standards are bent in'wa dand pass between the woven willows of t ebottom section -c and arepreferablyextended to the edges of the central board a as'illustrated inFig. 5 of the drawings. I Y

ff represent two metal rods which extend vertically throughthe wall ofthe basket and are sustained laterally by the willows woven. across theinner and, outer] 1 sides of the rods. the rods are formed intoU-sha edloo s 7zh'- extending downwardly elow t e The lower end portions of;

willow-bottom of the basket and terminating; f

in inwardly extending prongs around whichthe willows are woven. The

ends of said pron s are inserted into the edges of the central oard andare thus fastened to the ,bottom of the 'basket'and made to contributeto'the support of the willow portion of the bottom. However .I do notwish to be limited to the aforesaid construction of the lower ends ofthe rods -ffe inasmuch as in some instances the supportin feet may beformed separately and consist o 1 9'5 knobs -ZZ of any suitablematerialfas tened to downward extensions of the rods as re iresented inFig. 6 of the drawings.

nasmuch as clothes-baskets require on opposite ends thereof, two handlesas shown in the accompanying drawings, I employ on each end of the has(et a-pair of metal rods --ffextending, vertically through the end-Wallof theabasket and above said Wall,

boarddisposed in a plane below the base of rigid spurs projectinghorizontally from the edges'of the said board, and the mar inal portionof the bottom consisting of wil ows woven on said'spurs and supportedthereby in a plane abovethe bottom of the board. I

2. A basket having its bottom composed of a board constituting thecentral section of the bottom, nailsdriven into the edges of said boardand projecting outward therefrom, a marginal bottom-section composed ofwickers woven on said nails, and the standards having their lower endsturned inward and passing between thewoven wickers of the aforesaidmarginal section of the bottom as set forth. V

3; A basket having its bottom composed of a rigid central board, nailsdriven into the edges of said board and extending outward in -formedfromwoven Wic ers receivin a plane above the bottom of the board, a bottomsection surroundin the board and be-' tween them the aforesaid nails,stan ards havin their lower ends turned inward to the centre. board andinserted between the wickers of the bottom section, rods extendingupward from the bottom of the basket a united above the top of thebasket by a transverse portion of the joined rods, a handle er'nbracingsaid transverse portion, and the lower ends of said rods formed with 100s projecting below the wicker portion of t eottom and terminating ininwardly extending prongs fastened to the bottom of the basket assetforth.

AMOS H. CRAWFORD. Witnesses:

J. J. LAASS, S. R. LAVINE.

